SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Below are several examples of my published work that illustrate my research interests and methods. A more complete list of my publications can be found in my downloadable CV or online at Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu.
Frahm, 2023. The obsidian sources of eastern Turkey and the Caucasus: Geochemistry, geology, and geochronology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104011.
Frahm, Carolus, 2022. Identifying the origins of obsidian artifacts in the Deh Luran Plain (Southwestern Iran) highlights community connections in the Neolithic Zagros. PNAS, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109321119.
McMillan, Waber, Ritchie, Frahm, 2022. Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing. Journal of Archaeological Science, doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105626.
Frahm, Adler, Gasparyan... Monnier, 2022. Every contact leaves a trace: documenting contamination in lithic residue studies at the Middle Palaeolithic sites of Lusakert Cave 1 (Armenia) and Crvena Stijena (Montenegro). PLoS ONE, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266362.
Frahm, Martirosyan-Olshansky, Sherriff, et al. 2021. Geochemical changes in obsidian outcrops with elevation at Hatis volcano (Armenia) and corresponding Lower Palaeolithic artifacts from Nor Geghi 1. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103097.
Frahm, Carolus, 2021. End of the line? Obsidian at Umm Qseir, a Halafian farmstead in the Syrian steppe. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103035.
Frahm, Owen Jones, et al. 2020. Comparing Lower and Middle Palaeolithic lithic procurement behaviors within the Hrazdan basin of central Armenia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102389.
Frahm, Tryon, 2019. Origin of an Early Upper Palaeolithic obsidian burin at Ksar Akil (Lebanon): evidence of greater connectivity ahead of the Levantine Aurignacian? Journal of Arch Sci: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102060.
Frahm, 2019. Introducing the Peabody-Yale Reference Obsidians (PYRO) sets: Open-source calibration and evaluation standards for quantitative X-ray fluorescence analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101957.
Frahm, Kandel, Gasparyan, 2019. Upper Palaeolithic settlement and mobility in the Armenian highlands: agent-based modeling, obsidian sourcing, and lithic analysis at Aghitu-3 Cave. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, doi.org/10.1007/s41982-019-00025-5.
Frahm, Tryon, 2018. Origins of Epipalaeolithic obsidian artifacts from Garrod’s excavations at Zarzi cave in the Zagros foothills of Iraq. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.001.
Frahm, 2018. Ceramic studies using portable XRF: From experimental tempered ceramics to imports and imitations at Tell Mozan, Syria. Journal of Archaeological Science, doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2017.12.002.
Frahm, Tryon, 2018. Later Stone Age toolstone acquisition in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya: Portable XRF of Eburran obsidian artifacts from Leakey’s excavations at Gamble’s Cave II. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.01.042.
Monnier, Frahm, et al. 2018. Developing FTIR microspectroscopy for analysis of animal-tissue residues on stone tools. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9325-3.
Frahm, Hauck, 2017. Origin of an obsidian scraper at Yabroud Rockshelter II (Syria): Implications for Near Eastern social networks in the early Upper Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Sci: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.04.021.
Frahm, Goldstein, Tryon, 2017. Late Holocene forager-fisher and pastoralist interactions along the Lake Victoria shores, Kenya: Perspectives from portable XRF of obsidian artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.01.001.
Monnier, Frahm, et al. 2017. Developing FTIR microspectroscopy for analysis of plant residues on stone tools. Journal of Archaeological Science, doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.12.004.
Frahm, Campbell, Healey, 2016. Caucasus connections? New data and interpretations for Armenian obsidian in Northern Mesopotamia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.023.
Frahm, 2016. Can I get chips with that? Obsidian sourcing down to the microdebitage with portable XRF. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.08.032.
Frahm, Feinberg, et al. 2016. Middle Palaeolithic lithic procurement behaviors at Lusakert Cave 1, Hrazdan Valley, Armenia. Journal of Human Evolution, doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.10.008.
Frahm, Feinberg, 2015. Reassessing obsidian field relationships at Glass Buttes, Oregon. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2014.11.007.
Adler, Wilkinson, Blockley, Mark, Pinhasi, Schmidt-Magee, Nahapetyan, Mallol, Berna, Glauberman, Raczynski-Henk, Wales, Frahm, et al. 2014. Early Levallois technology and the transition from the Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in the Southern Caucasus. Science, doi.org/10.1126/science.1256484.